Evelyn Coleman - What a Woman's Gotta Do William Gay - The Long Home Tommy Hays - In the Family Way Frank Turner Hollon - The Pains of April Luann Landon - Dinner at Miss Lady's Dori Sanders - Clover Mike Stewart - Sins of the Brother

1998 Conference "Even a Blind Mule Finds an 'Akern' Ever' Once in a While"

Rick Bragg - All Over But the Shoutin' Robert Coram - Atlanta Heat Jerry Ellis - Marching Through Georgia Sibley Fleming - How to Rock Your Baby Harvey H. Jackson - Putting Loafing Streams to Work John McCormack - Fields and Pastures New: My First Year As a Country Vet Charles McNair - Land O' Goshen Deborah Smith - A Place to Call Home

1997 Conference "'The Devil Made Me Do It' and Other Excuses Why I Write What I Write"

Keith Dunnavant - Coach: The Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant Anne George - Murder on a Bad Hair Day Charles Ghigna - Riddle Rhymes; Tickle Day Marianne Moates - A Bridge of Childhood: Truman Capote's Southern Years Han Nolan - Send Me Down a Miracle Margaret Skinner - Molly Flanagan and the Holy Ghost Brad Watson - The Last of the Dogmen